2016
DOI: 10.1016/j.concog.2016.06.015
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Metaphor and music emotion: Ancient views and future directions

Abstract: a b s t r a c tMusic is often described in terms of emotion. This notion is supported by empirical evidence showing that engaging with music is associated with subjective feelings, and with objectively measurable responses at the behavioural, physiological, and neural level. Some accounts, however, reject the idea that music may directly induce emotions. For example, the 'paradox of negative emotion', whereby music described in negative terms is experienced as enjoyable, suggests that music might move the list… Show more

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“…Metaphors were also able to 'mediate language, emotion and esthetic response' the way other art forms can, such as music (Pannese et al, 2016). Metaphors helped the women follow Cree protocols that dictate teachings should be kind and gentle so no harm comes to another, and so the negative energy of past events was not brought forward into the present.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Metaphors were also able to 'mediate language, emotion and esthetic response' the way other art forms can, such as music (Pannese et al, 2016). Metaphors helped the women follow Cree protocols that dictate teachings should be kind and gentle so no harm comes to another, and so the negative energy of past events was not brought forward into the present.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Music has been with us since prehistoric times, serving as a language to express our emotions. This is regarded as music's primary purpose [20] and the "ultimate reason why humans engage with it" [21].…”
Section: Music and Emotion: Overviewmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The relations between music and emotions have been debated for millennia, with associations between modes and emotions found in ancient texts, from Indian, Middle Eastern (e.g., Persian), and far eastern (e.g., Japanese) traditions [21]. Natya Shastra (Nāṭ ya Śāstra), an ancient Sanskrit Hindu text describing performance arts, estimated to have been written somewhere between 500 B.C.…”
Section: Music and Emotion: Overviewmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Sometimes, this emotional effect is counterintuitive, as even sad music can evoke pleasure and comfort in listeners [6,7]. Pannese et al [8] used the conceptual metaphor of a chain of musical emotion that emanates from a recording or performance and works its way to the audience and listeners. The performer or composer transmits emotion at the production level.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%